Toward Decline
Aukus deal is ‘living a lie’: Australia will never get nuclear submarines from US and both sides know it, Bob Carr says - The Guardian
Why it matters
This article expresses high-level political doubt about AUKUS delivery—the centrepiece of Australia's Maritime Defence posture. If the US submarine transfer collapses or slips beyond operational relevance, Australia loses the nuclear-submarine capability essential to Pillar 6 (Maritime Defence) and Pillar 7 (Alliance), leaving a critical gap in the Indo-Pacific balance and signalling fracture in the Quad-AUKUS architecture at a moment of peak China assertiveness.
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